Syria rebels bring fight to pro-Assad Palestinians

Syrian rebels said on Wednesday they had formed a brigade of sympathetic Palestinians in a Damascus district to fight armed Palestinians aligned with President Bashar al-Assad.

About 150,000 Palestinian refugees live in the Syrian capital's Yarmouk camp, a sprawling area of concrete apartment blocks, where some residents support the 19-month-old uprising against Assad and others fight alongside Syrian soldiers.

"We've been arming Palestinians who are willing to fight ... We have formed Liwa al-Asifah (Storm Brigade) which is made up of Palestinian fighters only," a rebel commander from the Suqour al-Golan (Golan Falcons) brigade told Reuters.

"Its task is to be in charge of the Yarmouk camp. We all support it and back it," he added.

Rebels said they and the new brigade will attack Yarmouk fighters loyal to Ahmed Jibril, head of the Syrian-sponsored Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), accusing Jibril's men of harassing camp residents and attacking Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters.

1 posted on 10/31/2012 3:32:03 AM PDT by markomalley

There is no way, no way, no way we should be even slightly involved in this. None.

2 posted on 10/31/2012 3:37:00 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and none dare call it treason)

We’re in it up to our necks and running guns through Libya and Turkey to arm the “good Palestinians”. Not sure which they would be according to the Muslim in Chief.

3 posted on 10/31/2012 3:46:51 AM PDT by Cherokee Conservative (If a tree falls over in the woods, and then snaps back upright as a joke, do the squirrels laugh?)

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks markomalley.

About 150,000 Palestinian refugees live in the Syrian capital's Yarmouk camp... some residents support the 19-month-old uprising against Assad and others fight alongside Syrian soldiers.

4 posted on 10/31/2012 3:54:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)

Let them kill each other, God will sort them out if needed.

5 posted on 10/31/2012 4:01:35 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)

obama’s terrorists fight assad’s terrorists with illegal Libyan arms imported by chitown inc..

LLS

6 posted on 10/31/2012 4:05:43 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (OUR GOVERNMENT AND PRESS ARE NO LONGER TRUSTWORTHY OR DESERVING OF RESPECT!)

Palestinians fighting Palestinians, Too bad both sides can’t lose.

7 posted on 10/31/2012 4:19:39 AM PDT by Venturer

a sprawling area of concrete apartment blocks not what I would call a camp. A suburb, a town or even a city, maybe.

9 posted on 10/31/2012 5:16:54 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")

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